Week 6 - Challenger ($100,000) - Dallas, USA - Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 6 - Challenger ($100,000) - Dallas, USA - Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:

QR1: (q2) Chris Eaton WR 359 v Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 748
QR1: Dominic Inglot UNR v (WC) Artem Baradach (BLR) UNR

Cue Chris & Dom in the doubles!

spud · Challenger qualifying

Both have chances of qualifying if the courts suit them and hopefully they may sneak a seeding in the dubs (Combined ranking of around 500 atm- could be pushing it)

Are they no longer doing video streaming stuff here?

wolf · Tennis legend

Dom won 7-5 6-4.

Good to see him playing some singles again.

steven · Tennis legend

Chris is doing a decent bit of GEM-bashing on Julien Benneteau's younger brother - he leads 6-3 5-1*

spud · Challenger qualifying

QR1: (q2) Chris Eaton WR 359 beat Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 748 6-3 6-2

QR1: Dominic Inglot UNR beat (WC) Artem Baradach (BLR) UNR 7-5 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR2: (q4) Nicholas Monroe (USA) WR 383 (CH 253) vs Dominic Inglot UNR

The match to decide Chris Eaton's second-round opponent (Phillip Simmonds (WR 525) vs Mitchell Krueger (WR 1835)) is on court at the moment. Simmonds has just taken the first-set tie-break (I think), but the match has also just disappeared off the LS!

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steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q2) Chris Eaton WR 359 v Phillip Simmonds (USA) WR 525 (CH 219 in 2006)

Boggo did scrape in as the last direct entrant and his next opponent may ring a bell, because he's the same as his last opponent ...

L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 350 v Tim Smyczek (USA) WR 253 (CH 158 in 2011)

H2H 3-1 but the loss was the 6-3 4-6 6-2 defeat in Honolulu last month.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Did Dom make it into qualifying as a DA. If so, I find it incredible that an Unranked player can get into qualifying for a 100k!

Best of luck to him tho, met him a couple of years back in Glasgow. Top guy, and a brutal hitter of the ball

steven · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Did Dom make it into qualifying as a DA. If so, I find it incredible that an Unranked player can get into qualifying for a 100k!

Best of luck to him tho, met him a couple of years back in Glasgow. Top guy, and a brutal hitter of the ball

Yes, very strange that there are unranked players in a 32-player qualifying draw for a 100K in Texas when (3 weeks out of 4, wasn't it?) they managed to fill 128-player qualifying draws for 10Ks in Florida.

steven · Tennis legend

Chris had the only break point in the 1st set against Simmonds but wasn't able to convert it and Simmonds won the tiebreak 7-3

Dom just starting.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Looking better for Chris in the second set: *3-1.

Dom: 2-3*.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Chris concedes one of his breaks while serving for the second set, but still looking reasonably promising: 5-2*.

Dom loses the first by 2-6.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Chris gets a third break to take the second set by 6-2 & take the match into a decider.

Dom *1-1 in the second set.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Chris gets an early break in the decider: *2-0.

Dom *2-4 in the second.